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Team 41
Team Members |
Faculty Advisor |
Joseph Honcz |
Ji Ho Jeon Sponsor Pratt & Whitney |
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Compressive Creep Adaptive Fixturing
This report examines the requirements and concepts of compressive creep testing, along with displaying our design of the compressive creep test rig we manufactured for Pratt and Whitney. Currently, Pratt and Whitney uses tensile creep test rigs to test the tensile creep of specimens. Compressive creep testers are very expensive, so our group is working to design, manufacture and test our own compressive creep test rig that will abide by the ASTM E139 standards. Attempting to use the same lever arm setup that is used for the tensile creep tests, we will design a new rig to apply a uniform compressive force on the specimen and measure the creep during the testing. We will choose a candidate to design and manufacture and test our rig, while making sure we will fit into our working space that is given at Pratt and Whitney. After we qualify that our prototype works in the lab at UConn, we will then install our rig at Pratt and Whitney to perform compressive creep testing.